Ecology and geography of transmission of two bat-borne rabies lineages in Chile.

• Главные авторы: Luis E Escobar (Автор), A Townsend Peterson (Автор), Myriam Favi (Автор), Verónica Yung (Автор), Daniel J Pons (Автор), Gonzalo Medina-Vogel (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Rabies was known to humans as a disease thousands of years ago. In America, insectivorous bats are natural reservoirs of rabies virus. The bat species Tadarida brasiliensis and Lasiurus cinereus, with their respective, host-specific rabies virus variants AgV4 and AgV6, are the principal rabies reser...